Scrum Master & Coaching
Fourth
Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months
Being part of a great SM team, driving strategic initiatives. Being a servant leader to two mature T-shaped teams.
Following SAFe framework (Portfolio) fully implemented with ARTs and working closely with Managers, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers and Scrum Team.
Remote work (Covid-19):
- ensure remote work to run smoothly
- adapt to WFH environment and resolve challenges
- ensure all scrum events run as before
- ensuring team's morale, bonding, psychological safety and health check are high
Responsibilities:
- Leading a mature self-organized, cross-functional Scrum team, accepting everyday challenges related safe-fails on the team's, PO's and Manager's path to success;
- Ensuring physical & virtual scrum board, sprint track, impediments, features, milestones are accurate and handled to serve best the team needs;
- following Kaizen principles
- caring for team well-being
- using agile techniques as Voice of Confidence, Health Check, Fist of five, Niko Niko chart;
- contribute to dep. development (Lean and Agile Center of Practice and Improvement)
- mastering SAFe, being part of ART composed of few teams in Bulgaria, UK, Ukraine and US.
- Using Rally, Confluence, Salesforce, Miro and also different Retro and Planning Poker tools
- self-learning and knowledge sharing via internal Coaching Circles, Community of Practice, Coaching Club events;
- Coaching Teams using various techniques, tools and methods
Actively helping for organization of Agile events oriented to serve to the agile community in Bulgaria with experience sharing content:
- Scrum Clinics (organized by Fourth SM community)
- Facilitation Labs (organized by Fourth SM community)
- Internal Symposium for SM + RTE teams
Current project in Experian Bulgaria.
Helping in getting through the Agile adoption smoothly while transforming the mindset to Agile.
Setting the Scrum framework and team for success.
- Team dynamics
- Scaling
- Events
- Ensure all Scrum Artifacts are present
- Ensure needed workshops are planned and done (learning Scrum and changing the mindset)
-Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organisation, before coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable
- Supporting and educating product owners, especially on maintaining the product backlog
- Analysis of the best way to adopt the Scrum Methodology, according to the department needs
- Scrum Master knowledge transfer
- servant-leadership to 4 distributed teams (10 people each)
- JIRA administration
- Scrum process documentation (in order to suit the need of process for potential audits)
- Creation and maintaining documentation needs depending on the process governance in the company - Roadmaps, Sprint Schedule, Impediment Log, High level Plan, Reporting;
- training and coaching Stakeholders/end Clients
- coaches the team;
-facilitates transparency, inspection and adaptation
- ensuring the Sprint Goals are aligned with the project deadlines and budget;
- ensuring allocation of resources is on place
- supporting the BA's mindset change to Product Owner and requirement delivery prioritization according to business value
- working closely with PM, PMO to keep their roles in the Scrum world
- working closely with QA, SA and Development teams through the mindset transformation
- improving the communication between teams
- choosing what best fits into the department environment - LESS, SAFE, Nexus;
- working in multicultural, large-scale, complex, cross-functional environment;
- able to work with minimum supervision, fast adapting to the Senior Management/Team Leaders vision;
Test and Validation of cockpit electronics - driver information (cluster), Displays, Body Control, Connectivity, Infotainment, Telematics for leading automakers, including BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, VW and others;
Responsibilities:
- Working on long team project for Mercedes 2018 A, B, S class models
- Analyse system requirement specification;
- Requirements control;
- Version control;
- Manual black-box testing;
- Automation with Provetech;
- Defect management using RTC (IBM tool);
- Requirement management using DOORs (IBM tool);
- Testing via CAN protocol signals;
- Software version control;
- Automotive SPICE® awareness;
Responsibilities:
- Managing and coordinating the test and development team taking role as Team Lead(partially Scrum Master), leading small team up to 10 people Iterative/Waterfall (client side) & Scrum(vendor side);
- Working closely with PM, BA, Developers, Business SME, developing & transforming strategic IT projects;
- Support Senior management/Director level with decision making, mediating and translating technical problems to business language between technical teams and management level;
- Major experience in Complex System Integration & UAT management;
- 4 years experience in Waterfall to Agile transformation environment;
- 2 years following SCRUM (no scaling);
Main achievements:
- Implement EU roaming regulations within fixed deadline and complex mobile provisioning solution;
- Lead project for implementing complex Collection management system (Revenue Assurance), mediating between the Business & Vendor, using both Waterfall(client side) & Scrum(vendor side);
- Lead project upgrading Billing System, closing all test activities two weeks before the deadline following Agile principles;
Skills in Agile and Scrum;
- Mentoring team members (SM);
- participated as QA part of Scrum Team;
- acted as Team Coordinator role/Scrum Master in small project (Scrumfall);
- acted as Team Coordinator/combining both SM&PO in large (long-term) project;
Skills in Waterfall:
- SDLC management of short/long-term projects;
- Experience in UAT phase as UAT Manager;
- Experience with System, Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance, Load, Stress, UAT, Alpha&Beta Testing, Exploratory Testing, Experience-based Testing;
- Managing Service and Change Requests;
- Data migration:
- Requirements analysis; Test Deliverable; Test Planning&Control (Environment Setup); Test Analysis&Design; Test Implementation&Execution; Test Estimation; Test Reporting; Test Closure; Defect Management; Project Implementation (Release);
Participated in project for developing Universal Instant Media Messenger: a messenger that makes sharing photos and files and streaming music with friends as easy as sending a message by importing your accounts from MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, IRC and Jabber, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, AIM Mail, and .mac address books.
Gained skills:
- Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle;
- Analyse Requirements;
- Create and execute Test Cases/Scenarios/Scripts;
- Reporting bugs (JIRA);
Inn26.com represented online travel guide, giving information of hotels, accommodation, etc, redirecting users to booking.com.
- Maintaining website information accuracy
- Data entry
- Website Functional Testing (site navigation, external links, uploading info and images, search functionality);
- Website Usability Testing (responsiveness, ease of use, caching behavior, configurability);
- Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (compatibility test with different browsers, such as Flash, screen sizes);
University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance Oct 2008 – July 2011 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria